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Obesity Levels of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities: Prediction for Intervention

Obesity Levels of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities: Prediction for Intervention

Ebru Efeoglu, Ayşe Tuna
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781799883180|ISBN10: 1799883183|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799883197|EISBN13: 9781799883203
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8318-0.ch007
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Efeoglu, Ebru, and Ayşe Tuna. "Obesity Levels of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities: Prediction for Intervention." Impact and Role of Digital Technologies in Adolescent Lives, edited by Shaveta Malik, et al., IGI Global, 2022, pp. 83-99. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8318-0.ch007

APA

Efeoglu, E. & Tuna, A. (2022). Obesity Levels of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities: Prediction for Intervention. In S. Malik, R. Bansal, & A. Tyagi (Eds.), Impact and Role of Digital Technologies in Adolescent Lives (pp. 83-99). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8318-0.ch007

Chicago

Efeoglu, Ebru, and Ayşe Tuna. "Obesity Levels of Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities: Prediction for Intervention." In Impact and Role of Digital Technologies in Adolescent Lives, edited by Shaveta Malik, Rohit Bansal, and Amit Kumar Tyagi, 83-99. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2022. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8318-0.ch007

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Abstract

Individuals with intellectual disabilities (ID) have considerable health inequalities including higher levels of unmet health needs and a shorter life expectancy compared to the general population. The prevalence of obesity, a commonly accepted measure of health inequalities, is higher in people with ID than in the general population, and the factors leading to the increased prevalence among people with ID have not been well understood yet. This has become worse during the COVID-19 pandemic due to nationwide full and partial curfews. In this study, based on a dataset that comprises a set of parameters related to eating habits and physical conditions of a number individuals, the use of classification algorithms for predicting obesity levels of individuals with ID is proposed, and a performance analysis is made using well-known performance metrics. The results could be used by researchers and practitioners in this field to choose the best classifier for their mobile application solutions. Opportunities, research challenges, and future research directions in this topic are also presented.

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